What You'll Do

• Define the Vision: Own and articulate the overarching design vision and strategy for Front, ensuring it aligns with our company goals and drives the future of our product.
• Lead & Develop a Global Team of 20+ Product Designers in SF, Paris and Santiago: Lead, mentor, and grow our global team of product designers and managers. Foster a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive culture that empowers designers to do their best work. Develop career paths and growth opportunities for your team members.
• Drive Craft & Quality: Champion and elevate the craft of design across the organization. You will be the standard-bearer for quality, establishing processes and systems that ensure we ship polished, thoughtful, and impactful work.
• Be a Strategic Partner: Act as a key member of the product leadership team, collaborating closely with peers in Product Management, Engineering, and Go-to-Market to shape our product roadmap and business strategy.
• Champion the User: Be the ultimate advocate for our users in all product decisions. Drive a culture of deep user empathy and leverage research and data to inform our design direction.
• Scale Design Operations: Implement and refine design processes, operations (DesignOps), and systems to create efficiency and excellence as we scale, ensuring seamless collaboration across our global teams.

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years of experience in product design, with a significant portion of that time spent working on complex B2B or SaaS products.
• 5+ years of design leadership experience, with a proven track record of building, managing, and developing high-performing, multi-level, global design teams (including managing managers).
• A compelling portfolio or a demonstrated track record that showcases your ability to lead design for complex, large-scale products and your impact as a strategic leader.
• A strategic mindset with the ability to connect design decisions directly to business goals, user value, and long-term vision.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and storytelling skills; capable of clearly articulating vision and rationale to executive leadership, your team, and the entire company.
• Deep empathy for users and a passion for solving complex problems with elegant, human-centered solutions.
• A collaborative spirit, a low ego, and an eagerness to work in a transparent environment where feedback is shared openly and constructively.

Work Environment

• This is a hybrid role, expected to be in our Paris office on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Equity (we are post-series D & backed by some of the best VCs in the US)
• Fully covered private health insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Generous paid time off
• Focus Fridays - learn more here!
• Flexibility to work from home 3 days/week (unless posted as a full-remote role)
• Mental health support with Workplace Options
• Family planning support with Maven
• 75 Euro per month Lifestyle Stipend to spend on fitness, health and wellness, and other activities
• Winter Break - Our offices are closed from Christmas to New Year's Day!